Some monarchs do ’ave ’em

Every now and again, gushing is in order. Today, for instance. The Art of Italy, at the Queen's Gallery, is an astonishing exhibition. It consists of 90 paintings and 85 drawings, most of them masterpieces, many never seen by the public at large. More than a few are known only to the handful of experts who have been able to inspect a small number in the original during cleaning. Much recent restoration - of 35 paintings - was in preparation for this show. It resulted in some reattributions, now publicly revealed.

Everything here belongs to the Queen and is usually located in royal palaces and residences all over Britain, though we're not told precisely where. The drawings, we know, are kept at Windsor, and the majority of the paintings presumably comes from Buckingham Palace. But now these amazing things have been brought together for the first time since heaven knows when. Certainly,